Senator McKENZIE (Victoria—Minister for Agriculture and Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (14:27): This bill, if passed, will be devastating not only for farming families who have been in the industry for generations but also for local workers on farms, in sugar mills, in sugar transportation and at the ports. It will indeed hurt local economies. The Queensland Labor government just hasn't been listening, despite running such a farcical consultation process. They went through Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Bundaberg; they took 11,000 submissions from farmers, and yet they cannot listen. So let me put on the record some voices of real canegrowers on the ground. Burdekin canegrower Phil— Senator Watt: The ones you like! Senator McKENZIE: I'm pretty sure these views are in the majority, Senator Watt, through you, Mr President. He said: We are innovative and we are always striving for best practice and government just doesn't seem to recognise that … Canegrowers CEO Dan Galligan said, 'Essentially the government will hand bureaucrats in Brisbane the power to shift the goalposts on canegrowers again and again and again.' Home Hill canegrower Glenn Betteridge: 'No-one is putting more fertiliser on than we absolutely need'— (Time expired)